The Strauss Center is pleased to announce our project “Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States” which aims to foster genuine comparative study on surveillance laws and oversight structures.
Safe and Free contributors include think-tankers, academics, former government officials, and journalists. Many have worked in, advised, or overseen their countries’ intelligence services or oversight bodies. Covered countries span the Five Eyes, Western Europe, Scandinavia, EU member states in post-Communist Europe, and advanced democracies in East Asia.
In essays by leading experts in nearly a dozen countries, the project explores the variety of ways in which rule-of-law states seek to align national-security surveillance with their values and laws. The goal: genuine comparative study, with the aim of generating insights to help improve our own systems and navigate political and technological currents affecting many advanced democracies.
Please check out our newest project at safeandfree.io.
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein has been appointed to the congressional FISA Reform Commission by U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Klein brings to the Commission his experience as former Chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and other national security authorities. The Commission is tasked...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program and Editor of the Texas National Security Review, recently published “On War and Politics” in the fall edition of the Texas National Security Review. Utilizing a historical lens, Greitens emphasizes the “the need to integrate the use of military force with broader tools of strategy and statecraft in service of broader political goals.”...
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...